The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.